Mechanism for mechanically transferring items of accounts.



1,253,411 7 Patented Jan. 15, 1918.

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, 1. R. PEIRCE. MECHANISM FOR MECHANICALLY TRANSFERRING ITEMS OF ACCOUNTS. APPLICATION FILED AUG-23, I906- RENEWED JUNE 20. 1917- 1,253,417; Patented Jan. 15,1918.

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APPLICATION HLED AUG.23| ISOS- RENEWEDJUNE 20, I911.

1,253,417. Patented Jan.15,1918.

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MECHANISM FOR MECHANICALLY TRANSFERRING ITEMS OF ACCOUNTS.

APPLICATION FILED Auc.23. 190s. RENEWED JUNE 20. m1.

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MECHANISM FOR MECHANICALLY TRANSFERRING ITEMS OF ACCOUNTS. APPLICATION FILED AuG.23.190s. RENEWED JUNE 20,1911.

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J. R. PEIRCE. MECHANISM FOR MECHANICALLY TRANSFERBING ITEMS OF AC COUNTS.

I APPLICATION FILED AUG-23.1906- RENEWED JUNE 20,1917. 1,253,417.

NATIONAL D EP'T STOREYOUCHER DEen'oRs SIGNATURE YASHIER DEsn'o Rs BA N K FIG." l4,

ROYDE'N PERFORATED VOUCHER #40572 8 562 50 .CREDITOR AMOUNT STATIONERY DISTRJBUTION R O T N E V m for Mechanically [UNITED STAT S PATENT OFFICE.

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CW 103 KEGHANICALLY TRAHBIEBBING ITEMS OF ACCOUNTS.

Specification at Letters Patent.

PatentedJan'. 15, 1918.

Application fled Aagut 88, 1906, Serial No. 331,767. Renewed June 80, 1817. lertal Io. 175,974.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, JOHN Roman Primes,

a citizen of the United States, residing in the boron h of Manhattan, city, county, and State of ew York, have invented certain new and'useful Improvements in Mechanism counts or the like, of which the following is a s ecification.

n my application for Patent No. 321,050, filed June 9, 1906, ,1 have described and claimed a mechanical system for lice mg accounts, according to which a suita l perforated card serves its a controller or reproducing the item in a listing, adding, billing or other printing inachme. The present invention comprises the mechanism by which the system is executed, including the card,

. the mechanism for lo erforating'it, and the mechanism control] by the perforated card for reproducing the item. At the same time the present invention rovides fora number of o erations not disc osed' in the aforesaid app icationaH be separate mechanisms are also in some cases capable of independent use, and capable of uses not necessarily connected with the keeping of accounts. The mechanism parts of tion. 4

- as esrdina for setting the'punches may, ior example, be advantageously used for setting type. The card referred to ma be any sheet, leaf-or ribbon of light car board or other material, and. the final re roduction may be efliectedupon any desire medium,'the term s'heetf being used in a sense to include an such medium.

' I e accompanying. draw more or less d e I ati'cally t illustrate e rincipal Figure '1 illustrates, the card used -with or as f-b store salescard;

' '1' vertical sectional n'g zn'iachine showing "r column of digits i a f H in stbp' iiiechanism of the reproiiie trolled by the card;-

ducing mach view of the mech- Transferring Items of Ac-- mechanisms embodying e invenanism for automatically or manually setting the machine to print at either the debit or the credit side of the sheet;

Figs. 6 and 7 are respectively an elevation and a transverse section of the card pocket; Fig. 8 is a longitudinal sectional view showing the minuend *bar of a subtractin mechanism such as is used in connection wit meter cards, pay roll cards, etc.; b Fig. 9 is a similar view of the subtrahend pairs of-bars in juxtaposition; a

Fig. 11 shows a device ior checking the operation when two cards in a subtracting machine have different debtor numbers;

' Fig. 12 is a transverse sectional view par- Figl 10 is a transverse view showing two allel to and illustrating diagrammatically one unit of a machine for printin the letters of the alphabet, especially app 'cable to the department store card shown;

Fig. 13'is a face view of a card which I call a complete voucher;

Fig. 14 is a face view of a modifiedcard.

Cards.

section of the cardis divi ed either b ,the

actual lines shown, or by imaginary ines, into a number of columns representing the successive decimtledglacesof a number, as units, tens, hund is divided into ten squares representi from the bottom upward the successive digitsO, 1,

2, 8, &c. A single [Perforation is punched in each column to in mate the desired digit of the corresponding place in the printed numthe card is readable in the ordinary way without having to translate the punches. In

, &c., and each'col'umn- ,ber. At the same time the number itself is also printed in juxtaposition to the section of the card at which it is punched, so that many cases names, such as those of a debtor and creditor, may be represented by numbers, but there are cases, as in describin the oods in a department store statement, w ere etters of the alphabet must be used, and in such a case it is only necessary to make the punches according to a slightly more complicated system without substantially increasing the height of the card.

The cards are capable of use in a variety of ways which wil readily suggest themselves. The principal method of use which I propose, is to serve as means forreproducing an item in the oflice of the person who makes up a card, or in the ofiice of any debtor or creditor to whom the card may be sent.

The voucher card of Fig. 1, for example,

' forations in thesevera sections of the card are printed above therespective sections by the same. mechanism which makes the unches, so that there can be no conflict etween the punch and the. corresponding number. One or more additional perforations F ma be provided for determining accurately the location of the card inthe reproducing machine, as hereinafter described. Spaoes may be left on the card for the signatures of persons verifying or otherwise marking the card. 7

It is pro osed with this system that every firm or in ividual using it shall have a particular number, so that all cards which he "as a debtor shall'recei-ve, will have this number in the debtor division. Of course all cards which he as a creditor sends out will havethe same number in the creditor division. Ifmore thanone s stem of identifying numbers is used, as or exam Is a national and an international s stem, instead of the left hand row of the sections of the machine, there is substituted a key connected with the type having a star or other indicator which the operator shall print upon the card when he is using a corresponding code or system of numbers. In order to make it easy to determine what the numbers represent, it is proposed to. adopt a system whereby numbers between certain limits are ado ted for certain classes of users. For-examp e, national, State and municipal corporations hr de artments may be considered one class, ban .trust companies and'the like another, railroads and conne ted oflices another, and the numbers shit and credit between the two' determined limits might be so distributed as to convey additional information, geo raphical or otherwise.

Cards for in icating the meter reading of as companies, and the mechanism for makmg and using such cards. are described and claimed fully in m application for Patent No. 441,618 filed uly 2, 1908 (Patent No. 1,110,643 of Se tember 15, 1914.)

Pay roll car 5 and mechanism for making and using them, are described and claimed in my application No. 427,859 filed A ril 18, 1908.

he department storesales card (Fig. 2) presents no substantial distinction from the ordinary voucher card, except that in order to indicate the lgoods it is necessary to use letters of the a phabet. In order to avoid too greatly enlarging the card, I propose to use a slightly more complicated but very compact system of punches for this purpose. The alphabet is divided into three parts of 9 letters each, so that the three divisions will be as follows 1st div. 2nd, div. 3rd div.

I R H Q Z .G P Y F O X E N W D M V C L U B K T A J S The appropriate section of the card is divided (preferably by imaginary lines) into a suitable number 'of columns each having first division. The proper one of the three divisions of .the alphabet being indicated, the successivesquares above the two supplementary ones correspond to the successive lgttzis A, B, C, &c., J, K, L, &c., or S, T,

The listing machine is arranged for control by this alphabetical system.

In additionto the types of cards shown,

an almost infinite variety of, cardsmayb e desi ed for difierent businessea'as for examp e in banks, savings banks, clearing houses, postal money orders, freight bills,

stock brokers tickets, tax statements, time palgds of all sorts, telephone bills, and the The parts of the perforating, listingand billing machines illustrated are designed for application to the Wales adding machine.

e essential principles of my improvement however, can be applied readily to any of the adding machines now in the market, the

Wales being chosen because its mechanism is more easily adapted to the perforated system. On account of this universal a plicabilit to avariet ofmechanisms, yr

the nove or essentia elements of the new combinations are fullydescribed.

The perforating mechanism.

y This instrument is equi pad with a' regu- 4 I let addin machine keyoard having ten aces. and ten digits in each decior 100 keysin all; In addition to these there may be special keys such as one for making, a star or other indication of a particular system ofnumbers for individuals, and one making a perforation which shall transform a. debit card into decimal 'p 7 one making a credit register.

A carriage carries the card and also the printing type and perforating punches, so that these are movable with respect to the keys. The keys set the type and unches in their operative ositions, and a ammer or similar mechanism, carried b the carriagf, impresses the type upon t e'card or pus es the unches therethrough after these parts have heen set by the keys. The purpose of this movement of the type and punches relative to the keys, is to permit one bank of. keys to serve in succession as the carriage is shifted from one end to the other for setting the type and punches for each of the several divisions of the card.

' For example, with the voucher card of Fig.

1, the carriage is pushed to the extreme right and the type and punches corresponding to its left hand division correspondin to the date, are "engaged with the key-boar or are in position to be operated by the key-board. The key-board being now operated or set to the date, the type and punches are correspondingly set. upon a. trip is operated which allows the carriage to slide along to brin its next division under the influence of t e key-board. At each advance the key-board is released. When all the items have been set the handle of the machine is operated, the types are impressed upon the card, and the punches pushed therethrough. Upon returning the carriage to its 'first position, such sections or columns as the operator wishes are released. Those which are not to be changed,

such as the date, are retained in the sition to which they have been set by the eys.

Referring to Fig. 3, the stationary parts of the mechanism are the keys G, guide.

Therethe "sprin N and lifted to release said springs w en it is desired to move the type car mg bars up.- T e movable carriage carries, a number of type barsQ corres ber of columns on t e card. Partaking of the lateral movement "of the carria are the card-'R, the card pocket at whic the perforated back plate is indicated at S, :the hammers. T, and the shaft U carrying spring pawls V; and the lsinfports for the various parts such as the s W which determine 8 vertical movement of the'type bars Q. ach ty bar carries a series of types X a hammer and held bac ard by s rin "Bethrown forward carries also a unch The hammer T is "at a fi xed heig t a short'distance abovethe upgermostperforation in theback late S, an the punch Y is so arranged re atively to the several types X as to punch a hole in a card in a s ace correspondin to the type which stan s in horizontal line with t e hammer and which is impressed upon the card. T e roper key in a column having been presse forces out a corresponding pin or accomplished for all the keys for any division of the card. Thereu pon the rod P is swung backward, releasing the s rings, which lift the type bars Q until eac .tye bar stops with its shoulder Z against the projecting pin K. The pawl V engages a suitable one of the teeth a of the type bar to hold it to the position to which it is elevated; thereupon the operating shaft 0 is turned in the opposite direction, the .keys which have been pressed down are released and spring up, and the carriage moves to position to set the type bars of the next division. This operation is repeated for each division, after which asuitable device is operated to swing the hammers T against the types and to press the erforated back S with the card against t e punch, thus and crank arm P normally holding down nding to the total numand ada ted to' stop K, and this operation is first unching and printing at one o eration.

here are as many springs V as t ere are columns upon the card, but all the springs of any onedivision of the card are mounted upon a single sleeve 6. After the punching o the first card the sleeve corres nding to,

the date division of the card, an the creditor division and any others, may be left undisturbed, thus holding the type bars in place while the sleeves belonging to the other divisions are turned to withdraw-their springs V from the ratchet teeth a, and to let the type bars drop;

When any key in any column-is-premed,

the last of the pins K is forced out andpre vents the t pe bar from rising. When the erforated ack S is prlshed agamst'the type are, any type bar w ich is position is pushed back, the widened upper ends of the slots 0 allowing a lateral movement of the type bar. None of the types is op osite the hammer, and no figure 18 print and no perforation is made.

Listing'zmechanioni.

Where a singlecard has a single division thereon punched to represent an amount, the'mechanism forreproducmg this amount I have called a listin mechanism; the name billing mechanism einfiqiipplied to a machine which prints: the rence between two'amounts punched on 'a single card, or

on two separate cards which are .in the machine at once. The listing mechanism is illustrated in Figs. 4 to 7 inclusive. Fig. 4 illustrates'mechanism which may re lace the key-board of an ordinary Wales. ad ing machine, in order to adapt the machine to the purpose desired. The Qfigure, it will be understood, represents one unit of themachine correspondin to one column of spaces in the card. A co umn of ins 15 are arranged to project into a oc et 16, or to be withdrawn therefrom, t e card 17 being held in said pocket y the bringing of the movable wall 18 u a ainst the fixed wall 19.

to be When the hand e of the machine is o rated it effects a series of movements. he firstmovement advances the outer plate 18. The second movement advances toward the card a slide 20 .which presses a series-of individual sprinfs 21 against fixed collars 22 on the severa pins 15. All the pins are thus pressed a 'gainst the cards by their springs, and the pin in each column which registers with the perforation, .slips forward, pulling on its link 23 and throwing its rod 24 up above a determined level, so that it serves as a stop for the sliding or swinging member which determines the type rlnted. When the lever of the machine 1S reversed the slide 20 is drawn back and restores the pin 15 which has been moved forward, fixed'collars 25 being 'pro-' vided for this purpose on thepins 1n the rear of the slide 20.

The automatic device for throwing the sheet-to the right or left according as the -amount is to be debited or credited, is indicated' in Fig. 5. The stops24 are thrown up by the erforations in the card, one of the stops ing in each column and the slides 26 are moved in the direction of the arrow by springs until they against the stops 24, each slide moving to a position de ding onv the position of the punchint e corresponding column of the card. Suppose the oup 0 stops 24 shown 7 to represent the cre tor division of the card,

soar and the slides 26 shownto represent the correspondingslides. Then the mechanism is that when the punches in the .24 as to brin the plane of said lever.

to rin come to rest creditor division of the card corre 0nd to the party, who, made the card, the s ides 26 a will take such positions fgumst the etc is a series 0 notches on he under sides 0 the slides all'i-nto one transverse line, or to bring an equivalent series of erforations 27all into one transverse line. nder the'slides 26 and ressed upward, is a transverse bar adapted to move up into the several notches referred to when they come into line with each other and with the transversebar, or a transverse series of pins .28 maybe arranged to similarly enter the perforations 27. A striker 29 ispulled upward by a s ring 30 and is adapted when lifted to lie in the plane of an end 31 of a T-lever 32, but when depressed lies below The pins 28 are pivotal] connected to the striker 29 through the me ium of a vertical support 33, 34. The rear end of the striker 29 is pivoted at 35 to'an arm 36 on a shaft" 37, which may be the 'main operating shaft of the machine, or may be suitably connected thereto. Another striker 38 in in a similar way by the stops and slides corresponding to the debtor division of the car v ,,Now when the card is 'put into the ma chine and the pins pressed a ainst it and the em s24 thrown up, the s ides 26 move osition to engage the opposite arm 39 of t e T-lever is controlled forwar bringing the perforations 27 into ins 28 to enter and he movement of the line'and allowing the the striker 29 to rise.

. shaft .37 then causes the striker 29 to strike the end 31 of the lever, and to throw the carria e 40 in the direction ofthe arrow, so as a the debit column in line with the type w ich ought to print the amount.

he automatic mechanism may be thrown out and the position of the carriage determined by hand. For this purpose -a horiwithin reach of the operator, and 1s pivote at the ends of its opposite arms to the lower portions 34 of the vertical members con nected to the strikers. By swin 'ng the le-- ver in a direction to withdraw t e members 34 from engagement with the members 33, one striker or the other is allowed to sprin up into position to engage the correspon ing arm of the T-lever 32. The movement of the T-lever to one side'or the other causes the operation of the debit or credit mecha- .msm (which may be of any usual or suitable construction).

In case the users number does not appear correctly perforated in either the debtor or creditor section of the card, then another one of the strikers will move and the machine will refuse to operate.

.zontal lever 41 has its handle projecting I A part of the frame-work 42 prevents the I rise of oneof the members 34 when the i illustrated in detail'in v I hand lever 41 is operated. Upon placing the hand lever in its, middle fiosition, card again controls automatica y the debit and 'creditmechanim- This debit and credit" mechanism is of mauever Rthe catc '50, from'the fixedffii em i 51 in the-manner But if the pin'fits a rforation in. the card and asses through it,

which by means of; 58- lifts it operates a bell-crank great valuein various other fields than that allows the 20 to be moved forward specificall described. For example it may in theregu r way. therefore the usher be appli to an of the present add' maplate 20 cannot move forward, the:

chines, and won d prove ofgreat bent tin @bfthemachine operate and the opertaking of! trialbalances. Furthermore the ates Will-b101,! once thatthe wrong card selfifgyie fimctlixon of thiunechant'ialililismgy be is m the machma? ut" to i out num rs ori any account. y lac suitable stri s between' V p the strikers 9 an 88, interm ate p'osi- A suitablemechamsm for this pur ll tions might be determined fo rthe debit and credit frame correspond to additional columnsa pearin upon a ledger card.

Thus in a series ofynumbers can be taken co ance of and tabulated, omitted, or handl, in any desired manner, I, Q

Gard cket.-'A suitable pocket for the card an themechanism adjacent thereto is p 6 and 7 The space 16 receives the car 17 as reviously explained, and the outer wall 8- of the pocket" is movable toward and-away from the inner wall 19 through which the pins proi'ect. Topermit the quick removal and rep acement of a card, the upper and the left hand edge of thespace 16 are open, and a large o' ing 48 is upper edge 0 the lates 18 and 19. The openings 43 allow t e operator to hold the card in his hands until it is pressed to its position, and even, if he chooses, to hold it during its tabulation. Thecard is locked in place by two for each of t e open edges of the space, havin beveled ends. When the pocket is o n t 'e ends of the clamps are flush with t e faceof the inner side 19 of the pocket.

But when the plate 18 is moved inward the 46 position just before the card is presse clamps 44 are simultaneously moved outward and come to their efiective clampin tightly: between the walls 18 and 19 of the pocket. Themovement of the clamps is effected through a rod 45 connected to the outer wall of the pocket, and one or more levers 40.

ard, I ma use sins 4 one which are As an additional safe any desired number of p acing of which is shown in Fig. 7, an

ada ted toenter corresponding perforations in t e card to insure its correct registry with the bank of pins. The placing pin 47 is pressed forward by a sprin which in a turn is attached to one end 0 a lever 49, the

outside end of which is connected to a rod 45. If the placing pin 47 fails, to enter a rforation, a toothed catch 50 engages. a red member 51 and revents the pusher 20 from moving forwa to operate the pins statistical work any number or" provided in themeans offour clamps 44,

illustrated in Figs, 8,9, 10, 11 2. It I is understood that where a'l habetic'al t are to be printed the mac of ig.12 may be omitted, and that the subtractingmechanism of the other figures is notnec, except where a subtractin operation is to be made in printing the bi Referring first to the checking device in ig. 11, this device'isadded-to prevent the ration of the machine where two cards difierent debtor or consumer; numbers are introduced into the machine for the surpose of making up'a-bill to a certain ebtor. The series of pins 24 are controlled directly b the perforations in the debtor sections 0 the cards. If the two cards have v f, however, there be two pins 24 in any one column elevated at the same time (which can only occur whenthere are two-difierent debtor columns), the bar 62 cannot drop and the compoundbar will slide along until it strikes a lever 64 which trips a catch in mechanism and prevents from operating... It is understood that a the printing single bank of pins 24 is so arranged as to be operated by, perforations in the debtor section of either one of two cards.-

The-pins or stops 24 in the subtracting.

mechanism of Fig. '8 are controlled by'the perforations of the cards as previously explained. They are so arranged, however, that alongside the first column of the minuend is placed the first column of the'snbtrahead. Similarly the second, third, and a other decimal places of the twonumbers whose difference is to be taken, are arranged to lie alongside of eachother alternately. Any suitab e meat ma be used for transmitting motions induced y the separated sections of the card or cards to the common compound system of ins 24. For each decimal place in the erence,tliatis, foreachpair"ofmotion-transmitting arrangeminuendisth'elesser, thedi fl'erence will inversel as I resent the columns of pins 24, and :for each single H plate 65, two feeler bars are provided;

a' subtrahend bar 66 and a minuend bar 67, their positions alongside of each best-indicated in Fig. 10. 1

Imaginin the columns of pins 24 to rep igits indicated at their lowerends, itwill be seen thatwhen the minuend is i ten-than the subtrahend (in thesame decimal column) the spaces between the two J pins24 is the difierence. However, if the the spaces between the; two pins 24 w-h ic are operated; if s one space the difierence .will be 9, 1f twospaces the difimnce will be 8,

.The minuend feele'r with apairof nan-guns 'lates es and c9,

" steps 70. The subtrahend bar 66 has the up' rsidesof which are orizontal, while one si e is vertical and one under side is oblique and formed with a series of ten a lo vertical slot 71. The type plate 65 is by a bar 7 2 arranged to have a 'arallel move-- ment as the, operating hand e rotates the shaft 78in the direction of the arrow. A

pin 74 is carriedby thebar 72, and adapted to have a. horizontal. movement relatively thereto, but to be-carried vertically with the bar 72, the desired connection: being means of a horizontal slot 75 inthe bar, in which the pin 74 runs loosely. The pin projects on both sides" of the bar, the projection I atone side lying within the slot 71 of the 7 the slot 71 for-an v two bars 66 and 7.

of vertical movement of the pin 74 and the subtrahend bar, and the projection at the other side lying in the plane of the correonding minuend bar. Its horizontal mot1on is therefore controlled'by the slot .71 in the subtrahend. bar, and its vertical -mo tion by the step'70, which lies in line with relative position of the The possible amount bar 72 is therefore determined-by the relative position of the minuend and subtrahend bars; and the height to which the type plate is lifted when the shaft 73 is turned corresponds to the height of the pin 74. Ac-

cordin as the type plate 65 with the types 76 is ifted, one or theother of the types comes into'lme with the hammer 77, and upon the complete 0 ration of the machine this hammer moves orward, impressing. the

type upon the paper. In the upward movement of the bar 72, or in the subsequent downward movement, a rack 7 Boperates the adding wheels in the manner usual in addin machines. a

atever the position of the two pins 24 of two adjacent columns, if the minuend is the greater then the in 74 when it is lifted will strike one o the steps in the plate 6.8 (the parts being shown at the zero other 'ofsai position for both the minuend and the subtrahend). If the minuend is the smallerof the two members then it will be drawn backward from the osition shown .(that 1s, backward'relative y tothe subtrahend bar), and the pin 74 when it rises will strike one of the steps of the plate 67. Y As the minuend bar moves backward from the zero position relatively to the subtrahend bar, the first step to which the pin 74 rises indicates 9, the next step 8, etc., the quantity thus diminishing as the distance increases, thus providing for the inverse relation previ- V oust found necessary.

eni thewminuend 'is 1811121181 1 than the flllbtmhe'hdfitfxifl necessary to reduce the" minuend "(or increase the subtrahend) of 'thenext decimal placeb 1. To accomplish this I may use a bar 9 fastened with a parallel movement to the minuend bar 67 .and pressed upwardby a spring 80, and'operatingin connection/with a 'PIVOtQd extension 31 'on the subtrahend bar of the next higher column of figures. A fixed lateral extension 82'is provided upon each subtrahend bar 66 -extfendin over its minuend bar 67; adapted norma to lie in the rear a portion of the latter when: the pin moves to the left of the zero position shown,

and to press down the bar 79. The bar 79 in turn engages a small lu on the extension minuend bar and adapted to engage 81 and presses the lug own at the same time as the bar 79 moves down, and thus lifts the outer end of the extension high enough to clear it from touching the projlecting pin 24. When the extension 81 is 'fted the end of the subtrahend bar 66 is one space shorter than before, and the result of this is to make the movement of'the subtrahend bar of the next higher decimal place one unit greater than it would otherwev wlse be,and at the same time to bring the pin 74 of the next column one step beyond its revious position.

according to the compound systemprevi- Zphabet mechanism.For rinting -letters of the alphabet with car s perforated 110 ously described, a su table mechanism is pins or steps 24 are controlled by thereguar series of perforations in the card corres onding to the successive letters in an un termined division of the alphabet; and the selection of the pro r division of the alphabet is determined either lg tion of the pins 24 alone, or by e operation of one or t e other of the rods 88, 84, controlled respectively by the two su fipementary perforations of the card. type gate 85 carries the type indicated, and will under control of a hammer and other the operashown diagrammatically in Fig. 12. The

suitable and well known mechanism; and

is raiiedto the point y an alihible mechanism, t itied' by" a., lever .whose movement is theslide inall positionsr If neither one of.

the rods '88, 84, is operated, but only one ofthe 24, thentheslide move" under the pressure of the usual,

forwa V spring until' the end90- strikes the elevated.

' pin orstop 24. If, however, simultaneforward until the shoul enuglaeglcs elevated stop. If the rod 84 isp then with'theelevation of one of 94 e is ulled, then the slide 87 the pins will be lifted, its s3 ljwill. move it the the shoulder'92 comes into pla In the movement of the end 90 across t e column of stops, thetype plate moves to bring the letters fromA to inclusive into register.

. In .theqmovement of'the shoulder 91 across thecolumn of stops the second divisionof bank transmitted to. the debtors bank, by

letters is brought intoplay and in the movement of the colder 92 di third division.

Modification of ooucher.- -The complete voucher shown in Fig. 13 contains spaces for the same items as the original voucher,

of Fig. 1, and in addition two spaces for the number of the creditors bank and that of the debtors bank, and a, line for-the debtors signature. This cardJwhen sent to a debtor and si ed b him constitutes a check drawn on is be Either his clerk or-tiiat of the creditor to whom the card is returned 'will punch the number of the debtors bank. It] will then be deposited in creditor's bank for collection, and by this whom the amount will be charged against the. debtors account. Each of the persons who handles the card. will make a mechani- I calreproduction and listing, and no writing will be. necessary except such si atures as are'required by the several parties.

Instead of unching in one card a number for both a de tor and a creditor, I may omit one of these punchings, in which case the name of the party omitted (ordinarily the creditors name) would preferably be printed on the card. As the principal function of the punchings correspondingto the debtor and the creditor is to shift the carriage or rint at the right or at other part so as to the left. the repr ucing mechanism will be modified in case one ofsaid punchings is omitted. Supposing! the debtor s space and corres nding punchings to be omitted, then the de tors chine will be so arranged that if the punchi gs in the creditor's space do not correspond with his own number (that is to say, ifit is not a card which he is sending out to some other debtor), the

etermined by a slide 81.- This slide is 'provided. with a pair of slots 88,89, runnm upon fixed ins and insurv ing' a horizon a1. or paralle movement of omission of the debtor-space .QpermIts understood therefrom that the invention is l others, means, for perforating the card. with" mechanism will m, on the debit side of e nism in fact may be zso normally in positiomtowr: be Shifiadto print. a:

ber perforated in the icreditqflsssp great" advantage ofithis harrangement is the possibility of usmg fifeiwemii. case upon card. As; shown, fdrrexamplcihi lliig. it the distribution space,: so long; t ammate, mitof the use of lettersiiofwthellalplialietuin stead of numbers forz the fiere distribu tions. 7

-Formatter in the premnt application" because relating? to difierent inventions, reference isrmadc my other pending "applications.iahovsziprew 115 ferred to, and also.tomy' applicatinnst'iblos g 387,868 .of August 9, .1907, and 396,970 of October 11 1907.

"Though?! have described with figreat particularity of detail certain speci c bod' ments of my invention, yet it is'not to be restricted to the specificembodiments' dis- 9o closed. Various modifications thereof in details and in the arrangement and combina-- tion of the parts may be made by those skilled in the art withoutdeparture from the invention. y 95 What I claim is:-

I 1. Perforating mechanism including in combination a number of separately movable unches, means for setting each of said punc es in position independently of the all said number of punches at one operation, and means for advancin a card by. successive etc 5 to positions or receiving perforations om such number of punches at each operation. I 2. Perforating mechanism including in combination a keyboard, a carriage carry-. ing a number of punches ada ted to be set by said keyboard, and means or advancing said carriage to successive positions in which the . carriage are brought suocessivel into operative relation with said keyboar and means for holding or releasing the punches of one section independently of those ofanother section.

. 12b 4. Perforating mechanism including in combinat on a. keyboard containing a series of columns of keys a o ffseparate and inde ndent unches "m corresponding colu'uing and 55y. thekys of said board,

means for operating said punches, and means for preventin rtheoperatlon jof the punches in a column w on no keyin the c'o'l-responding column is operated. I

5. A "machine" including in combination separate and indepedent unches' f or perforating a card and devices or printing thereon an indication corres" "ndin'g to the perforation', ;a setof keys an 'mechanismactuated by each key' for controlling both a printing and a perforatingoperation; v

6. A, machine including in combination separate and independent punches for perforating a card and'devices for printing thereon an indication corres onding to the perforation, a set of keys an mechanism actuated by each key for setting a punching "actuating sai pu device and a rinting aevie and means for vices. a

7. A perforat' and print including in com bl nation means or setting a number of punches and types in ition means for perforating and printing the card with all sald'number of punches and types at one operation, and means for advancing a card by successive steps to ceiving 'perforatlons 1 and impressing from suchmimber of punches. andtypes at eachv operation.

. In witnem whereof, I. am heme v signed my name in' thepresenc'eof two subscribing witnesses.

witnz ARTHUR C. P'A'n'on, Domoo AvUsnu;

and printing machine positions for re-.I

JOHN ROYDEN Person; I 

